July 21, May 11, April 11, Disclaimer: This page may contain affiliate links. Please see our disclaimer policy here. Never leave without travel insurance. My South Pacific adventure appropriately started in the Solomon Islands , the most remote and least visited of all the countries on my journey across 6 countries. It was fascinating, enriching and very unique.
Written by Mar. Ghost sighting. Honiara is a hard to describe place. Wet, muddy, dirty, bare are some of the words that come to my mind. It did not help that it was raining and therefore the dust turned into mud.
It made everything look even less developed. Despite all of this, my week in Solomon Islands was sprinkled with several incredible experiences. I witnessed a starry sea one night when a storm kept me stranded and nature decided to show off with its beautiful luminescent plankton you can read more about a Starry night in Ghizo here but perhaps the most incredible of the moments was when I flipped through the only newspaper in the country made of exactly 15 pages.
It was as bare as the rest of the city but it felt relatively familiar and even cozy. I looked like I had slept out in the rain. Mud was covering my entire legs from walking around continuous puddles, and my feet and flip flops were hard to tell apart from the dirty ground. I was about to finish my 10min read of the national newspaper when a piece of news stood out: a ghost sighting.
There it was, in plain sight, on a half page of the newspaper, next to an article on a rapist, an account of a ghost sighting, a good ghost it seemed, and one which did not mean bad, according to the author. I had to look twice. At first I thought it must be a joke then I realized they were pretty serious about it. The story goes like this. At that time, the Festival of the Pacific Arts was being held in Honiara.
